Steam for Linux

My primary display is 2560x1440. Everything else in Steam seems to work fine at this res, but Big Picture mode seems to internally render itself to 1080p, and then upscale that to my screen size, making it look terribly blurry.

The Display prefs confirm this suspicion, and doesn't have any options for resolutions higher than 1080p. screenshot[postimage.org]

My expectation would be for Big Picture to just run at whatever resolution the desktop runs at, and not second guess my requirements or system abilities.

BPM is designed for the TV and these are either HD Ready (720p) or FullHD (1080p).

This seems pedantic to me. Big Picture is designed for big screens, and those don't necessarily have to be TVs. Certainly my monitor is large enough to qualify (27"). As well, 4k TVs (4096 px horizontal, usually) have been on the market since 2006, and are now starting to enter the main stream.

In any case, it's not like it checks to make sure your monitor is actually large enough. It doesn't limit people on little 15" displays or laptops from using BPM.

There's no technical reason not to support > 1080p from what I can see, and your "it's for TVs" argument doesn't hold up. Steam should just support whatever resolution your desktop happens to be, perhaps limited to widescreen resolutions (16:9 or 16:10) to fit the graphic design of the interface. Doing otherwise just makes the interface pointlessly look worse on better resolution displays.

I'm sorry but is quite obvious from the resolutions in BPM that the TV is targeted. This was Valves intention as it seems. Not my fault just stating the facts.

This isn't "just the facts", as in fact BPM supports tons of non-TV resolutions. On my setup, I can see the following available in addition to the standard HDTV resolutions you mentioned: 1600x900, 1366x768, 1066x600.

All of those are standard laptop resolutions, not TV ones. So you're incorrect on what BPM currently supports, and I suspect you're putting words in Valve's mouth, since I haven't seen anything anywhere that says they're only planning to support TVs.

Given that's the case, given Valve already supports a ton of non-TV devices, and given there are TVs with a resolution > 1080p, this request to support resolutions > 1080p stands.